Abstract

Criteria for the economic effectiveness of new technology occupy an important place in the system of criteria for economic effectiveness of social production. At the same time, they also have a significance of their own - as one of the main economic levers for managing progress in science and technology. Four aspects characterizing the significance of these criteria can be singled out. First, they are used in the selection of the most economical variants of new technology in all directions of scientific and technological progress. Second, they make it possible to shape technical policy in the national economy as a whole and in its individual elements. Third, they serve as the most general indicators in the planning of scientific and technical progress. The final and fourth point is that they are the basis for providing material incentives to the collectives of enterprises and individual working people for their participation in the creation and utilization of new technologies.

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